Description: Feather Thief : Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, Paperback by Johnson, Kirk Wallace, ISBN 1101981636, ISBN-13 9781101981634, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US As heard on NPRs This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though its non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crims ever.” —Christian Science Monitor
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at Londons Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwins obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwins, Alfred Russel Wallace, whod risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness.
Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one mans relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and mans destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
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Book Title: Feather Thief : Beauty, Obsession, and The Natural History Heist of the Century
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Special Interest / Adventure, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Animals / Birds, Criminology
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Nature, Travel, True Crime, Social Science
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback